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Well, as many of you may know, I bought a new laptop. And as you may or maynot have guessed (or been told), I decided to go with the MacBook.
The 13.3″ White MacBook to be precise, I even got a nice little discount on it when I bought it from the Apple Store in Chadstone.

So whats it like?

Well, first off, I didn’t relise just how small it was going to be. I’ve seen other MacBooks before, but they were all with… slightly larger screens. This one feels small in the width department, but that’s not a negative.
The touchpad is probably one of the best I’ve ever used on a laptop (Unlike the IBM ones that shit me to tears so much that I prefer using the little red nipple mouse), with swipes, and general pointing all as accurate as you can expect from a touchpad.
I should also point out that this version has the mouse button, not the “whole pad is a button” thing thats on the aluminum MacBooks
The keyboard is definitely up-there with the KeyTronic KT2001, Creative Fatal1ty, and Razer Lycosa keyboards that, in my opinion are the best keyboards money can buy. They keys are definitely laptop keys, but they feel more like a desktop keyboard with the amount of travel they have. And they have that nice ability to be both silence, and loud at the same time. You know, where you can get keyboards that are as silent as a mouse when you need them to be, but once you start typing, your ears are full of “clack clack clack”?
The screen that comes with the MacBook is also excellent, very bright, with vibrant colors, and is easily the most clear LCD that I have ever used (sadly haven’t had the chance to get a copy of Vista or XP installed to test it in games yet). And I haven’t seen any color bleeding or back light seepage yet (yes those are official terms that I’ve just made up).
The build of the case is also top-notch, with basically no flex in any part of the body (there is a little in the screen but that can be expected from most laptops), with the MagSafe power-socket being a huge bonus considering how I use a laptop when its tethered to a power cord (read not at a desk with a power-cord).

Ok, now onto the system. I’ve done my impressions on MacOS X before, and its still the same, bloody awesome OS, and I honstly think its leagues ahead of Vista in everything except game support (shut up, Vista IS the best Windows OS avalible at the moment).
Everything is very responsive, and smooth, and I have not had it lockup yet (altho its felt like it came close a few times).

Now, I’ll be back lateron, after I get VMWare Fussion installed

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